EyeblastTV came across this video showing a top view of what happened during the flotilla incident- as mentioned in our earlier blog post on Israel’s response to the incident. It appears that the following video is similar to the claims made by Israel.
Charlie Crist, the Republican-turned-Independent Governor of Florida, is swaying towards vetoing a measure that would opt the state out of federal health law’s abortion mandate.
Crist said even though he is personally pro-life, that he my kill the bill, claiming he does not want to “impose his views upon others.”
“I’m concerned about it,” Crist stated of the legislation on Wednesday. “Even though I am pro-life, I do not want to impose my views upon others.”
Senate hopeful and Republican candidate Marco Rubio responded to the possibility of vetoing HB 1143, “It is my hope that Governor Crist will come down on the side of life, and sign HB 1143 into law, or at least allow it to become law without his signature. This commonsense measure is a small but important step toward providing women with vital information during perhaps the most critical healthcare decision they will ever make.”
Eyeblast.tv has discovered another video of Joel Rogers, who sits on the National Steering Committee of the Apollo Alliance (who crafted President Obama’s stimulus bill), from a 2009 workers’ round-table in Madison, Wisconsin, in which he stated “Unions are the best anti-poverty program in America” and that union membership is directly correlated to whether the United States has a middle class or not.
“Having a decent job is the best way to get to the middle class. It’s probably the only way to get to the middle-class. Most workers, unless you’ve got really exceptional labor market skills that are in demand, the safest route there is having a union”, Rogers said.
“That’s the best anti-poverty program in the country, that’s the best- trades especially- it’s the best trade program. It’s an American institution, our form of unionism, and does a lot of good. When you had high unionization you had a middle class in America, with low unionization you don’t, and those things are not unrelatable. Period.”
Rogers stated this as unions began pushing for the passage of the so-called ‘Employee Free Choice Act’ last year.
However, the Heritage Foundation disagrees. In an study titled, “What Unions Do: How Labor Unions Affect Jobs and the Economy, James Sherk writes:
When the “bridge to nowhere” was everywhere in the news two years ago, Americans for Prosperity hit the road on an “Ending Earmarks Express” tour.
The most powerful report from AFP’s journey came in
Congress reluctantly rescinded funding for the bridge to nowhere, but greased pigs continue to run free, and spend freely, in the corridors on Capitol Hill. In fiscal 2008, Citizens Against Government Waste unearthed nearly 12,000 examples of pork in federal spending bills. The projects cost the taxpayers $17.2 billion — and too many Americans are clueless about where the money went or which lawmakers are to blame for the wasteful spending.
With the help of citizen journalists all across
How will we do that? Three words: “Porkbusters On Patrol.” That’s what Eyeblast and Porkbusters are calling the networked journalism project we are announcing today.
“Porkbusters On Patrol” combines the concept of AFP’s earmarks tour with the vision that Instapundit Glenn Reynolds shared in his book “An Army Of Davids.” The goal is to equip an army of citizen reporters with pocket camcorders to produce an ongoing series of on-site video stories about Congress’ pork-barreling ways.
